Julian, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Woodland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57225. The Survey maps it on the Baileys Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Baileys Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Julian (historical) between 2002 and 2006, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Other causes | 10 acres | Raymond Volunteer Fire Department | TROY MUDGETT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lily (historical) | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Hillcrest Colony | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Crocker | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Clark | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Bradley | 9.2 miles | 7 | |
| Garden City | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Raymond | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Gros (historical) | 11.1 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264206. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.



